Regulation
5 Arena Journal articles on Regulation, spanning 2021–2024 across Opinion, Athletes and Leagues. Analysis of how regulation shapes the business of sport.
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12 DEC2024Opinion
The Regulators Arrive, and Nobody Has Told Them What Success Looks Like
Statutory oversight of professional sport is being legislated across several jurisdictions. The powers are broad; the objectives are not defined.
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25 AUG2022Athletes
The Agency Roll-Up: Who Owns the Representation Business
Player representation has consolidated from a cottage industry into a handful of capital-backed platforms. The conflicts this creates are structural, not incidental.
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28 APR2022Leagues
The Forced Sale and the Limits of the Ownership Test
A sanctioned proprietor, a licence to operate, a court-supervised auction: this year produced a template for divesting a sporting asset under duress that nobody had drafted in advance.
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19 AUG2021Athletes
NIL Day One: The College Athlete Becomes a Vendor
Permitting American college athletes to monetise their name, image and likeness created a market of roughly half a million new commercial counterparties overnight, with almost no supporting infrastructure.
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22 APR2021Leagues
Forty-Eight Hours: Anatomy of a Competition That Never Kicked Off
The breakaway announced in April collapsed faster than any comparable venture in modern sport. Its failure was a financing failure before it was a political one.
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